3.3 Patch Notes Updated! (Build 10747)

So the latest PTR build has some very interesting changes to the patch notes, including one I've been waiting for for a long time—it appears that meeting stones no longer have a maximum level requirement. Anyone above level 15 can be summoned by any meeting stone. It also appears that 71-80 battlegrounds now reward a small number of arena points. Veeeeery interesting...

Edit: Looks like they've adjusted that line in the patch notes. It now says "All level 71-80 Battleground daily quests will now award 25 Arena points in addition to their current rewards."

Check the summary after the jump!

Please note that the following is only an excerpt including recent changes made to the patch notes, and that the full patch notes can be found here.

General

Meeting Stones: To use any Meeting Stone, it is only required that the character’s minimum level be 15. There is no maximum character level requirement for any Meeting Stone.

PvP

Battlegrounds

All level 71-80 Battleground daily quests will now award 25 Arena points in addition to their current rewards.

Wintergrasp

You must now have the following ranks to build or pilot siege vehicles:

Rank 2: Build/pilot Catapults.

Rank 3: Build/pilot Demolishers.

Rank 3: Build/pilot Siege Engines.

Death Knights

Army of the Dead: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Army Ghoul damage dropped by 50%. Cannot be used in Arenas.

Raise Ally: The cooldown on this ability has been reduced from 15 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

: Threat generated by this ability increased by approximately 17%.

Mages

Talents

Frost

: This talent now triggers immediately on casting a spell rather than being delayed until the spell strikes the target.

Paladins

Protection

Devotion Aura: This effect of this talent has been reduced in duration to 6 seconds.

: This talent no longer increases the amount of damage transferred to the paladin from . Instead it causes all raid and party members to take 10/20% reduced damage while is active. In addition, the duration has been changed to 6 seconds, however the effect does not terminate when Divine Sacrifice is removed before its full duration.

Shamans

Earth Elemental Totem: The cooldown for this totem has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

Fire Elemental Totem: The cooldown for this totem has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

Warlocks

Pets

Summon Infernal: The cooldown on this summoning spell has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

User Interface

Group Disenchanting Option: In addition to rolling Need or Greed on items, players now have the option to elect for an item to be disenchanted if an enchanter of the appropriate skill level is in the group. Disenchant works exactly like Greed except if a player wins the Greed roll, they will receive the disenchanted materials instead. Players who choose Need will always win the item and will always beat those that choose Greed or Disenchant.

If im reading this correctly with Night of the Dead, Unholy DKs will get to use Army of the Dead whenever they feel like it.

Probably not. My guess is that blizzard will update that talent to reduce AoD by 5 minutes (1/2 the cooldown as before but matching the new base cooldown.)

I do agree that removing the summon stone level requirement would have helped on the hallowed fest HH runs. No doubt it was complaints about that very issue that prompted them to make this change. Too bad they couldn't hotfix that in the middle of the holiday.

Comment by Blackboy0

on 2009-11-03T18:39:40-06:00

Fire Elemental Totem: The cooldown for this totem has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

Comment by Gukhwa

I suppose we can still try to use the LDF system to bypass the Org guards and horde players :)

Warlocks

* Pets o Inferno: The cooldown on this summoning spell has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

WTB Glyph of Inferno that lowers cooldown by an addition 9 minutes and removes the reagent requirement for the spell...

Comment by Baconwrangler

on 2009-11-03T19:33:29-06:00

Y WARRIORS NEVER GET CHANGE!

Seriously.Why not? tbh blizz...

Comment by Barkend

on 2009-11-03T20:34:01-06:00

I predict a crescent use for the Meeting Stones in Gnomeregan and Stormwind Stockades now...

Comment by Palidamn

on 2009-11-03T21:50:52-06:00

Wow.Battlegrounds

All level 71-80 Battlegrounds will now award victors 25 Arena points in addition to Honor.

This is so freaking sweet.

I'm not really digging this, im not too keen on Blizz mixing up how to get stuff. ( PvP gear from PvE encounters ) , and this is only mixing it even more. They are ARENA points you should have to arena to get them.